Gut Feminism

Author:   Elizabeth A. Wilson
Publisher:   Duke University Press
ISBN:  

9780822359517


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   04 September 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Elizabeth A. Wilson
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780822359517


ISBN 10:   0822359510
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   04 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  vii Introduction: Depression, Biology, Aggression  1 Part I. Feminist Theory 1. Underbelly  21 2. The Biolocial Unconscious  45 3. Bitter Melancholy  68 Part II. Antidepressants 4. Chemical Transference  97 5. The Bastard Placebo  121 6. The Pharmakology of Depression  141 Conclusion  169 Notes  181 References  201 Index  225

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From organ speech to enteric moods, the gut is minded and the mind gutted by this book. It promises and delivers readings of biochemistry, pharmacology, anatomy, and psychoanalysis as strange matters that are unsettling to biology and feminism alike. Provocative in its diagnosis of the rejection of biology in feminist theory, I expect many readers will both devour this book, and throw it around the room a little. -- Hannah Landecker, author of Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies Theoretically rigorous, critically astute, and absolutely engaging, Gut Feminism is a well-crafted, exquisitely written, and lively intervention into key debates in feminist theory. A major and important book. -- Robyn Wiegman, author of Object Lessons 'There is still something about biology that remains troublesome for feminist theory,' writes Elizabeth Wilson, in Gut Feminism. This vigorous, rigorous, and riveting book not only asks what biology might do for feminist understandings of affect, illness, mood, and agency; it makes a searingly powerful case for an unashamed embrace of feminist aggression. A wonderful pedagogical experience. -- Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism


'There is still something about biology that remains troublesome for feminist theory, ' writes Elizabeth Wilson, in Gut Feminism. This vigorous, rigorous, and riveting book not only asks what biology might do for feminist understandings of affect, illness, mood, and agency; it makes a searingly powerful case for an unashamed embrace of feminist aggression. A wonderful pedagogical experience. --Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism


From organ speech to enteric moods, the gut is minded and the mind gutted by this book. It promises and delivers readings of biochemistry, pharmacology, anatomy, and psychoanalysis as strange matters that are unsettling to biology and feminism alike. Provocative in its diagnosis of the rejection of biology in feminist theory, I expect many readers will both devour this book, and throw it around the room a little. --Hannah Landecker, author of Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies


Author Information

Elizabeth A. Wilson is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and the author of Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, also published by Duke University Press.

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